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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
Beware of the Flat Wheel.

As train was pulling out of station
in Chicago passenger sat still moment,
as if listening to something, and then
rose from his seat, picked up his lug
gage and asked his travelling companion
to go with him into the first car ahead.
"But we have just got comfortably
seated here, replied the other; "why
should we make a change2 Car too hot
for you2"
"No, the temperature is all right. "
"Too cold, mebbe!"
''No, it's not too cold"
''Then what is the matter? Why
should we 90 into the front carr"
"Well, I'll tell you. You know fused
to be a railroad man, n conductor, and,
of course, I picked up some ideas on the
road that man gets only from expert
ence. AS soon as the train started my
ears told me there was fiat wheel un-
der this car. Don't you hear it rapping
ON the rails? Wait till the train slows
up for the first stop, and then you'll hear
it-rTlnning too fast now. Yes, sir, car
wheels fatten out, and have to be close
ly watched. Some imperfection or I'M
evenness i'll the iron, or some eXtraOrdi-
nary blow ON rail or obstruction, makes
an impression on the surface of the
wheel, and then every revolution there
after adds to the injury. A wheel will
fatten out III q remarkably short time,
and on long runs of through trains a flat
wheel is a source of danger. If this
wheel runs from here to New York, and
happens to be a pretty soft wheel, the
chances are that it will arrive there in
Tal.y- ho1 condition after IOinO DluHh
the company will get in passenger
money from all the occupants of the car.
OF course, there's not much danger; but
I make it a rule never to ride in car
that has flat wheel under it, and if
you don't mind we'll go up ahead"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
Those Little Boots.

Up in the cemetery on the hill, this
morning, picked the pebbles from off
his grave and smoothed the new-made
earth with my hand, and brushed away
some dead leaves that had fallen there.
I think there was tear dropped on the
grave as / bended over it, and there
.were little rivulets of tears running
down both my cheeks as 1 came away
from the lonely cemetery.
And / entered the house again. Oh.
how quiet it seemed without the patter
of his little feet, and his little cry of
welcome. All, my precious one, papa
misses that sweet and tender greeting.
And on the mantel / saw his pair of lit
tie boots-the first and only pair he had
ever worn. put them ON the mantel
with my own hands, the night before he
died. Such little boots How | have
looked at them, and how size has taken
them in her hands and kissed the stiff.
black, heavy-soled things, and shed her
tears upon them. How his little ewes
did shine with joy and happiness when
] brought them home. How those red
tops and brightest copper toes enchant-
ed his youthful heart. Then when she
made his first pair of pants to wear with
the boots, how his little body swelled
with pride. Dear little boots! On the
mantel there in silence they seem to
speak sweet and tender words to me. ]
love them because he wore them. And
she loves them even more than [, for
every morning she kisses them and every
evening she wipes away her tears with
their little red tops. Oh, dear little
boots, the kingdoms of the world could
not buy them from us, they are the
memories of our dead boy that God gave
to us. His little boots Even now I
hasten to the mantel and [ tonch them
again with nay rough fingers, and the
tears are falling thick and fast upon his
Gtsis boots WEI, u, CI.Essss.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
The MOnOluge Drew.

The Chicago Herald tells this story -
Frank Lincoln gave his monolgue en-
tertainment i'll town in Southern Hi
nois the other night. The hall was well
filed, but the people did not seem very
much amused ut the humorist's funny
work. After the show a man with Ezra
Kendall whiskers stole into Lincoln's
dressing room and poured a hatful of
com into the humorist'S hands.
"Well, how did the show come OFF,"
asked Lincoln, trying to shake off his
chill.
"Fair," blurted the committeeman,
drenching the floor with tobacco juice.
''Purty fair show"
"HOw did you like itI"
"Oh, tOlerable."
"Then you have seen better:''
Sort o disapp 'inted you didn't bring
1t along. We WIS all a-looking fur it.
Did you furget itl"
'Forget whatl"
"Why, that ere thing you call the
monOlogue. The feller who came here
nigh onto fifteen years ago had 'em in
Il cage, an it caught ON like thunder
Have you got yOurn at the hotel!"
When Lincoln got to the depot the
next day he saw that the dead walls bore
these posters: Crank Lincoln will
present his monologue at = hall to-
night. Come and see it." This ex-
planned the coolncss of the audience the
night before. They were waiting for
the monologue
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
On a Railroad Bridge.

August Stair, in company with friend,
drove into Shelby, N. c., from THEN
farm, and got very drunk. Toward
night Stairs friend got out of the buggy
and went into barroOm for another
drink. Stair, growing tired of waiting
for him, undertook to drive home. He
was so drunk that he could scarcely keep
his seat. A mule was hitched to the
vehicle. Upon reaching the suburbs
Stair turned the animals head and drove
on the railroad track. He went nearly
half mile over the ties.
Then the vehicle reached the bridge
which at this point crosses a fearful
chasm eighty-two feet high. Here the
mule halted, but the drunken driver
urged him on over the trestle work
There is IL one-plank pathway running
over the middle of the bridge, from one
cross tie to another. Upon this the
mule stepped carefully pulling the buggy
over the ties. At each move forward
they sank between the ties with jolt
that nearly forced the occupant out.
Finally when two hundred yards had
been traversed in this way the mule
slipped and his feet fell through the
bridge. The close timbers prevented
him from going through. Persons on
the other side fortunately reached the
scene and saved animal and driver. Stair
simply remarked:
~ Thought that road VIA rough,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
That Same Man.

Did you ever, asks an exchange, meet
with that unfortunate man whom every
body who does not know him firmly be-
heves to be married The man to whom
every married woman says: Really,
you ought to have Il nice little wife and
II nice little home. You would make
such an admirably domestic husband :"
When they know that he isn't and ism t
likely to be, they Immediately put up a
history for him and give it out conf
dentially that he has had an adventure ::
that he has loved and been Tilted, OF that
the loved one has died and his heart is in
the tomb of the Capulets with the be
loved Juliet. And they pity him and
are tender and gentle to him, and the
young girls avoid him and the old maids
flock around him and want to console
HIM. If you'll investigate him you'll
find he's perfectly sound. perfectly
heort-wholc, has perhaps Tilted lot of
girls, and is just Is merry bachelor
~ theirs is.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
Be Careful of Your Signature

A gentleman of wealth, while practic-
ing penmanship one day, wrote his name
upon blank slip of paper and allowed it
to lie on his desk. 1t attracted the at
tention of a neighbor, who, for "A joke.
filled the space above the signature in the
form of promissory note, and few days
afterward the joking neighbor presented
the paper with an offer to allow consid-
cradle discount if the apparant drawer
would cash it at the time. The gentle
man perceived the joke, and the holder of
the document, placing it in his pocket.
departed, and nothing more was said
about it. Subsequently the holder was
stricken with paralysis and died, and his
executors, finding the note, and having
no knowledge of the joke attached to it,
brought suit and received the sum for
which il WIS drawn, Youths fompaaign,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
IN THE LANE.


and art thou then, my heart, too old.
Ever to leap with love again,
To feel the strong blood-torrent rolled
Through the heaving breast and teemin,
brain?
II Is no more, my heart, for thee
1ltes one unquestioned ecstacx?
Are faded quite those dim, far days
When music smothered every sound,
when up and down youths happy ways
tared glories on eternal round?
Has chill OF years killed every joy
That hiossomed for the wandering boy /?
1hese are the trees once known SO well
we Selt to them all but beknown.
Their very shadow We could tell
Fro1a others by the forest thrown.
31ie same glad song from bush and bough-
As nIsoe we heard, we hear them now.
And these sweet flowers beneath my feet,
Their young eyes greet Us as of yore,
The hope, there Still they think to meet
Her glance that shall not answer more;
To us alone it cannot be
They're looking up so tenderly.
1hls Is the same gray path we took
Behind the slowly going day;
As they do now, the light leaves shook
when eFening breezes blew this way;
And there's the glow upon the dome,
ana here the COWS are coming home.
AN, no, good heart, thou still canst stir,
stu lives the love first bid the leap;
Still are we at the side of her
They laid away meath yonder steep.
Enough elods he on her and stone,
In the dear cid lane we're not alone.
JOIN VANCE CHENEY, in the Century.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
LIKE 1T WAS IN SHERMAN.
A Few Wise Sayings Given us by
Carl Dunder.

Dot some peoples who shpit oafer der
fingerfor luck when dey see a white horse
| vhill loaf aroundt sooner dan work for
twelf shillings day.
When / vhas content in my mind
vhas us rich ash Vanderbilt ; when l
vhas all proke oop der riches of Shay
Gould would not make me happy.
Der friendship of goodt man vhas
like der interest on ten thousand dollars
at sefen per cent
Peoples who build der biggest castles
in deir minds shenerally lif in der poor
est houses in reality. I doan' give q
bushel of turnips for dot ship which
vhas to come in for sOmepody.
l tell my poy dot Truth whas mighty
und must prevail, but he hadt peter
look q leedle oudt if he sees man
drunk und goes und tells bis wife.
Sometimes a lie vhas shust what makes
people happy.
Der reason Why we look pack on our
shildhOod NIT soOch fondness is pecause
we can't remember der tears und heart
aches.
Dot same man who doan pellet in
Heafen pecause he can't see him will
accept of whiskey simply by der shmell.
One time When 1 goes NIT der boleece
to see a deadt dog in my nelghbors
yard, he comes oOp und finds two deadt
cats under my own wOOdshed.
1t vhas a golden principle TO be honest,
but if all men lived oop to him der
peesness of der country would fall of
One-half i'll IL week.
1t vhas alway my pellet dot guide
boards were put mp at highway corners
to make more miles for tIafelers. If we
doan' know how long der roadt vhas We
come to some place all der sooner.
Some day when | shall come to pelieve
all der wolldt vhas badt, ] shall ship
out to der barn and hang myself for fear
dot 1 vhas der only good one left und
would be lonesome.
Nature vhas mighty good to some
folks, but you Will most always see dot
she run short of brain material after
making handsome face.
[ know What ails der times, und / can
shpeak der needs of der country, but l
let him alone. 1t vhas peter dot some
one who doan' pay taxes und goes oop
py der workhouse for a loafer tells der
peoples.
Maybe it vhas true dot sharity pegins
ct home. Some husbands act dot yhay
When dey vhas asked for money by der
wives.
Nopody should be older dan he vhas,
but it should be remembered dot some
oldt folks can make fools of themselves
ON very short notice Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
A Boys Influence.

Some time ago [ attended religious
meeting, and at the close OF the exercises
tie audience was invited to participate
and said, in substance: Give been
saved from intemperance by my little
boy" pointing to a bright lad in the
audience. 81 owe my conversion under
God to my own little son. Religion has
made me sober man and helps me to
live an honest, industrious life. 1t was
not always so. On one occasion I was
absent three OF four days from my home
and my poor wife and boy were nearly
brOken-hearted. On the fourth day my
dear child asked his teacher to let him
go home at recess, as he was not feeling
well. The boy was sick at heart on my
account; when he reached home he
9,s ltS tSss IN y5r i ean t. aa ofFes oeP at
night, my head aches and my lips are
parched praying to God to send home
father. Mother, does God hear2" His
mother strove to comfort him, but her
faith was beginning to waver, for through
her married life her unceasing prayer
had been for my reclamation. After
wandering from one saloon to another,
bt lllS ClICA VI L
home intoxicated. Did my boy tuIn
from his drunken father2 No, he ran to
me, clasped his arms about my neck and
wept tears of JOY. After his emotion his
first words were Father, almost feel
I can never pray again, for God has let
you come home drunk The words
struck Inc to the heart, and said, Don't
lose your faith in God and your poor
miserable father will never get drunk
again. God heard that promise and
has enabled me to keep it" This man
is among the most earnest workers in
the temperance cause to-day. He had
lost all self-respect and had sunk very
low, but could not bear to see his child
lose confidence in God; therefore the
boy became the means of the fathers
The exertions put forth
on behalf of children in temperance in
struction will not be lost III the home,
but will produce lasting fruitage.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
STORY OF A WOMAN'S HEART.
Three Love Letters Found in the
Pocket of a Coat.
from the Christian Union.I

In the inside pocket of the dress coat
I found a woman's kid glove that had
once been white, but was yellow ana
spotted with age, and three letters tled
together with a dingy white E0pon.
united the ribbon and opened them here
at my desk at home. The ink was faced
and the letters SO worn i'll their folds
that they almost fell to pieces. They
must have been folded and unfolded IS
great many times. They were written
III feminine hand, Mt Il time when such
writing was III a sQall and running
character, much different from the sun,
irregular, and somewhat unreadable
scrawl which is III vogue to-day; ana
they bore 80 old a date that / am ylolat-
ing no confidence in giving them In tnu'
"TRoY, June s, 1837..--Dear john
| know how sad and soIIy you must feel,
because L know how wretched l am-
And we were so happyl If it could only
have been as we had hoped and prayed,
1t is very hard to think that this can liz
any way be for the best; but / suppose
we ought to think so. Perhaps we may
think so some time when we talk it over
together, and feel the happier because
we have known how sad separation Is.
1t would be worse, dear, ii 1 had lost
faith in you or you had in me. That
would be the worst Oh, ifI could only
see you and tell you that l love you, L
love you'll can not write, I am so mis-
erable and unhappy, and want you so
much.
F'Nor need l write-to tell this tale
My pen were doubly weak,
All what can idle words avail
Unless the heart can speak?
"By day or night, in veal and VOC,
That heart, no longer free,
Must bear the love it cannot show,
and, silent, ache for tb=o."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07

A CITIZEN of Ionin, Mich, while
standing with wet rubbers on an iron
doorstep suddenly lost the power of
walking. He nearly tainted from terror,
thinking he was paIalyzed Upon dis
covering that his Iuhbors were frozen to
the doorstep he inlt hatttr.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07

"OxLY think, my friend, dreamed
last night that You had paid me the one
hundred tiorins you owe me, and that |
had them III my purse 'Ah! how
charming. That encourages me to ask
you to lend me another fifty forins."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07

AT the time of the recent strike of
the tobacco workers in a factory i'll Jer-
sey City there were two pet cats i'll the
factory which were inseparable. One
of them went out with the strikers, but
the other remained in the factory, and
when the strike was over the striking
cat went back with the hands. 1t re
fused, however, to associate with the
faithful cat. The two met by accident
yesterday on one of the floors of the
factory, and the cat that went out
pitched into the other cat and thrashed
it. Now the victorious cat travels about
the factory with Il red, white, and blue
ribbon around its neck, placed there by
IT. Knights oi Labor admirers,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
WHEN WOMEN VOTE.

When women shall rule by the ballot,
Which they hope to attain soon or late,
How grand will sound President Flossie,
And Mamie Department of State)
How digniied Gertie and Winnie
viii sit in their Cabinet chairs.
And Gussie, and Lulie and Kittie
Transact Governmental affairs
How majestic will Chief Justice Berthe
Inspire with judicial awe
Sweet Roxie, and Sadie and Myrtle,
The learned expounders of law
And when the great General Nltie
With her troops at the battle sP1iyes,
Her name will strike fear to the terrified foe
And they'll turn and run for their lives
It'd Rifa
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
HIAWATHA.

He killed the noble Mudjokivis,
With the skin he made him mittens.
Made them with the fur side inside,
Made them with the skin side outside;
He, to get the warm side inside,
Put the inside skin side outside;
He, to get the cold side outside,
Put the warm side fur side inside,
That's why he put the fur side inside,
Why he put the skin side outside,
NnuT K l.tIazl them inside aUt side
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07

"TRoY, IA, 1837.-DearestJ John:
I have been trying to imagine the
town as you describe it, so that L might
fancy that / were with you. Oh, if 1
could bel It is so lonely. / watch at
the window until it seems that / must
see you. Down by the bridge I found
place that you cut with your knife when
we waited there one night and tried to
plan for the future. I leaned by cheek
against the notch in the post, and kissed
it, and cried when 1 thought how far
away you were, and how long it might
be before / could see you again. But it
won't be long, will itl And you will
find walks that we can take when come
to you. l am glad there is a river. We
can row on that as we used to. When
we talk it over by and by, this won't
seem anything, will it? But it is very
hard to bear now. Martha is very kind.
Of course can't say much to her, but
it is a consolation to know that she cares.
Tell me more about the place, and what
you are doing. I want to know all
about it, and feel that 1 am with you.
Once more, dear, love you, love you,
c."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07

These are the letters. It was difficult
at first for me to believe that they had
been written to Brownlow. He was SO
old that could not think of him as
young man. After I read them leaned
back in my chair and tried to imagine
him as he must have been when these
letters We're written to him, and to pic
ture. him standing by the bridge with
knife. And then I fell to imagining the
story. What had caused the separation
Why were there but these three letters
Had she forgotten him2 Had she died Z
Here are the letters; you may tell your
own story, and have no excuse for not
being perfectly satisfied with il.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07

"TRoY, July 8, 1SS7.--My Dearest
We are to leave here 1 don't know
why, and 1 don't know for how long. L
believe we are to travel-I don't know
where, and [ don't care. want to be
left here. What shall do if I cannot
hear from you2 L must find some way.
We leave tomorrow, and I anu as
wretched as I can be. Only wait for me
and l will come to you. 1 think of you,
dear, night and day. I can see you and
your room. Can you feel that am with
you sometimes? / can't tell when 1 can
write again, and I am writing this in my
room to send toyou to-day. L shall find
some way to write. We are young yet,
dearest, and let us wait and hope. / am
always, always yours. 1 love you, I love
you. c."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
A CASE OF NECESSITY.

Minister Ito boy who is digging for
worms)-"Little boy, don't you know
that it is wrong to work on Sunday, ex-
cept in cases of necessity
Boy (going ON with his digging
''This is a case of necessity. A feller
can't go fishin' 'thout bait. Life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-01
The TeleDhOne of 1865.

@There is nothing new under the
sun, not even the telephone. Permit
me to state that in the year 1865 there
was published in England book with
the title of "Micographia." The author
was DR.. Robert Hooke, celebrated
scientist, mathematician, and philoso-
pher, who was born in the Isle of
Wight in 1886 and educated at Oxford.
The work referred to contains various
philosophical descriptions of minute
bodies made by msgnifying glasses, as
indicated in the title, together with
observations and Inquiries" on them.
In the preface the learned scientist as
serts that the lowest whispers by Ger
tain means (Which be does not make
public may be heard at the distance OF
q furlong; that he knew a way by
which it is easy to hear anyone speak
through a wall three feet thick, and
that by means of 81 extended wire
sound may be conveyed to a very great
distance almost in an instant.-NortA
american Revieso.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-01

1 will here state that since the first
issue of my little journal si1ty-four.
more or less, direct offers of marriage
have been made to me, all from parties
I never saw or heard OF. From such q
List I could undoubtedly secure curl.
osity worthy of mummifying. But the
plain, naked truth of the case is that
when I was just passing out of my teens
q few years since I actually met q crank
face to face. He had the fearless cour-
age to vocalize his Offering, and it be-
ing the first, with no guardian angel to
impress my dreams of the de1uge
which was to follow, I at first posi-
lively refused, directly relented,
shortly acquiesced. The fact is, I am
married and have three youthful dsugh-
ters and husband Gentleman, don't
become desperate; there are hundreds
and thousands of chances left for you
yet.-DouglasuiUe (Ga) Industrial
Woman